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[music playing]

[theme music]

Man's gotta have you ride.

Man makes a million a day, and got boats and houses and all

the white lines he wants.

What do you want?

Hey, I'm one of you, I'm Chicano.

You shot one of us. You're the man.

Are you--

I mean, do people call you Stingray?

I hope not.

Well, if you're the man who's known as Stingray,

I need to talk to you.

I understand you're a friend of Eddie

Cancharos, the chief deputy district attorney.

[heart monitor beeping]

[surging electricity]

You're prosecuting Louis Magna,

and now the chief deputy DA leaves court, shows up 12 hours

later hooked on cartoons.

Were you his friend?

He said once he knew a Stingray.

I heard a lot of rumors about a man who drives your--

Take him to the Malibu Palms Inn

on the Pacific Coast Highway.

Ask for Sharla.

She'll give you a room in the back.

Wait for my call.

Why?

Do you think I'm in danger too?

I'll be in touch.

Done the deed, Mr. Mendosa.

Somebody took your boss down hard.

They decided not to kill him but the turn him

into a smiling six-year-old.

Whoever did it is sending some pretty strong signals.

DAPHNE DELGADO: I don't even what to call you.

Call me Ray.

Short for Stingray.

Short for Raymond.

You work for the government, don't you?

No, Daphne.

I work for you.

[music playing]

(SINGING) Yeah.

All right, Doctor.

Shoom, shoom, shoom, shoom, shoom, shoom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Jungle concrete, the urban zoo.

Saying look out there, he's after you.

Evil rides in a limousine.

He's your deepest fear and your darkest dream.

White heat on the street, cocaine.

Junkies eating right out of his hand.

White heat on the street, cocaine.

If you're looking for trouble, he's the man.

So somebody said come, I come.

But I ain't gonna stand around all day waiting for some taco

prince to show up.

I heard somebody connected electrodes to Mike Magna.

I heard he's sitting in his house

and he can't even remember his own name.

Yeah.

Well, so what are we supposed to do, huh?

Are we supposed to back off just because Mikey

Magna can't put his pants on?

Hey, this is a fast track.

You move away from the rail, guys pass you.

Take a look at this.

[laughter]

MAN: Dig that coat.

Gee, you believe this, man?

Get a load of this guy, will ya?

He got his ice cream truck parked outside or what?

My name is Tony Mendosa.

I'm from Mexico City.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know you are.

You're the guy they call Moonlight.

This piece of broccoli made his rep by hacking

up Panchos while they slept.

Huh?

You have a very loud mouth, senior.

Hey beanbag, you want to close it, huh?

No.

Do you like the food I have prepared for you?

I understand this caterer is used by many Hollywood actors.

It would be a mistake to take me too lightly.

I control all organized crime in Mexico.

Also Brazil and parts of Peru.

Now, each of these territories was not easily won,

but I have always prevailed because I

will do anything to win.

So what you want from us?

Prostitution, dope, off-track, everything.

[laughter]

I am going to run it all.

If you choose to cooperate, I will give you a percentage

and allow you to manage the business.

If you fail to cooperate, I will make your world go away.

Poor Mr. Magna, he was my message to you.

Talk to him.

Oh, he will giggle and say funny things.

He will tell you about the cartoon program he is watching.

He will ask if he can go to the bathroom,

and then he will forget that you are on the phone and walk away.

You think you can swing in here from tacoville

and vacuum up my operation?

Get serious, pal.

I hope the food was OK.

I will contact each of you about your answer.

Except for you, Mr. D'Agostino.

Yeah?

What are you gonna do to me, huh, hot sauce?

You gonna strap me down and zap me too, huh?

No.

[laughter]

Hey, take the eight-foot tree with you.

[laughter]

Rice and beans.

[music playing]

(SINGING) All right, all right, all right, all right.

Yes.

Guy comes here, thinks he can scrape me off.

I'll get the car.

Yeah.

Lousy beanbag.

He'd have never made the damn neighborhood,

I'm telling you that right now.

Put him right in the cans.

Make Swiss cheese out of that guy right in the middle

of the neighborhood.

Whoa!

Wait a minute!

Hold on, hold!

Hold it, wait a minute.

Hey, help me out here.

No!

[tires screeching]

MARCIA FINCH: Ray, it's Marsha Finch.

Are you in there?

STINGRAY: Yeah, I just got out of the shower.

I'll be out in a minute.

Is it pay Ray day?

Who do you want me to kill for you?

STINGRAY: It's nothing that dramatic.

I'm job hunting.

Send me your resume, social security

number, correct identification.

I'll need to know who the hell I'm employing.

Russ Martin, originally from Fort Worth, Texas.

Social security number 257-63-789.

MARCIA FISH: Russ Martin?

Another alias, darling?

Why a Texan?

I need something that'll check all the way to the IRS.

The man I'm interested in is married to a woman from there.

Besides, sophisticated people sometimes underestimate those

of us with southern drawls.

Well, what kind of a job did you have in mind?

Oh, nothing too fancy.

Senior vice president of your hotel chain.

Head of operations might be nice.

I-- I wouldn't have any of this if it weren't for you.

I owe you everything.

But I-- I can't make you senior vice president.

It needs to be a title with the power to negotiate

a contract for your hotel.

I need the title to get into a high security

executive placement service.

Oh, and I'll need access to the computer

and the locking code number.

The computer?

I-- I don't know.

Marcia, stop hedging.

I'm so happy you could stay with us

this evening, Mr. Martin.

It must be fascinating traveling as you do.

Well ma'am, there are times, I have to say,

I get real tired of looking at the inside of a suitcase.

Um, my husband will be with us in a moment.

Just so glad you could stay for dinner.

Well, I wasn't expecting such a charming invitation

from such a charming lady.

Norm, could you see what's keeping Ernst?

I asked to go see what my husband is.

I'm sure he'll be here as soon as he can.

In the hotel business, when we ask one of our employees

to do us a little favor and he refuses, why, we very often

ask next for his resignation.

So glad you could be our guest for dinner.

Sorry I was detained.

Darling.

Oh, haven't you offered Mr. Martin a glass of sherry?

Well sir, she has, but, uh, sherry doesn't happen to be

the liquor of choice in Texas.

If you all might have a whiskey, I'd appreciate it.

Norman?

I understand you come from Fort Worth originally.

Well, how'd you find that out, sir?

I like to know about my guests here,

so sometimes I do some checking.

Evelyn's from Fort Worth.

Well, now there's a coincidence.

Thank you, son.

Where did y'all go to school?

Addison.

Old man Riley still head man there when y'all went?

Yes.

Yes, I believe he was.

But, uh, didn't he retire?

STINGRAY: Oh, no sir.

Not Jake Riley I stay current 'cause

we put a little endowment money in the school.

And how long have you been with the Keys hotel chain?

Well sir, I've been in operations about three years,

Before that, I was in acquisitions.

Oh, then you were present during the Marsh

Regency acquisition.

Tricky little maneuver.

IRS still scratching their heads,

but we survived the audit.

Yes, the audit on that was closed last February.

Well Mr. Dexter, you've been doing

a little research on the Keys hotel chain, now haven't you?

Well, I like to know that people

are who they say they are.

Tell me, Mr. Martin, how much do you know about our operation?

Well sir, I know you supply executive talent

for some of the largest corporations in America.

Now, we need some top level people.

I thought I'd stop by and give you a look see.

Well, the Institute specializes

in executive placement.

We operate under the principle that a good executive

is an executive who can make decisions under extreme stress,

not break down under pressure.

We scout out up and coming executives in other companies.

Well then, uh, we invite them here

to undergo what I call severe stress testing,

with a guarantee in writing if they pass

my two-week observation period that we place them with client

companies at two or sometimes even three times

the salary of their current positions.

Just what kind of stress you put these fellas under?

Oh, extreme.

How long you all been in business?

I practiced down in Mexico for 10 years

before setting up my organization

here in LA five years ago.

But I still have many ties there.

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(SINGING) Shoom!

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, yeah!

I took the liberty of talking to your employer Mrs. Finch,

and she asked me to extend you every courtesy.

So I do hope you will be our guest.

Be my pleasure, sir.

Good.

May I show you to your suite?

Damn friendly of you, son.

Oh, Hey.

Hey, what are you gonna do?

What are you gonna do to me, huh?

Oh hey, please.

Please, please, don't hurt me, huh?

What are you gonna do?

Please.

Please.

Are you pleading with the beanbag from tacoville, senor?

D'AGOSTINO: (FRIGHTENED) Oh hey, what are you gonna--

what are gonna do? What are you gonna do?

Oh, no. Please.

Hey!

Oh, please, please!

No.

[surging electricity]

[groaning]

Problem with the power?

Here's the key to your suite and all the open areas

of the institute.

Its computerized, so it won't open any secured areas.

What do you all do for entertainment

around here, good buddy?

[music playing]

MAN: What's he doing?

Just unpacking.

[whistling]

In here.

Who are you?

Are you a policeman?

I can't help you unless you tell me what's going on.

What happened to your cute Texas accent?

I outgrew it after you slipped me the note.

I have to get to the main research lab.

I need a key. Do you have one?

He's got the only one that'll open everything.

It's in his wallet.

ERNST: Evelyn?

Evelyn, where are you?

I was just getting ready for bed.

Be right there.

I didn't enjoy your flirtatious

performance at dinner.

I wasn't flirting, Ernst.

I wouldn't think you would have to be

reminded about your cassette.

I want to go home, Ernst.

I want to see my parents. They're getting old.

My father isn't feeling--

Look, I have big trouble.

And Norman has told me about your trying to telephone out

behind my back.

What are you talking about?

This Mexican will have my soul.

He's low and common.

I should never have accepted any money from him in Mexico.

He thinks he owns all this.

He doesn't understand.

He's going to take over everything in LA.

He'll destroy everything that I have built.

I'd like to really give him some-- gah!

[music playing]

What-- what are you doing?

Take off your clothes, Ernst.

Come on, let me help you.

You mock me.

You know this won't work.

You know I--

How do you know if you don't try?

Here, let me take your jacket.

I'll just be a minute.

Not now.

I-- I must go.

I have-- I have work to do.

You're a whore.

I know what you really are.

EVELYN: Relax, it's OK.

Come on.

ERNST: No! [slap]

EVELYN: Oh!

[door shutting]

Thanks.

Oh, God. He knows.

He hates me.

Then why'd you do it?

Right.

Come on.

This way.

Wait for something.

He does most of his research in an underground laboratory

complex.

The only way it is through a passageway

from the basement of his house.

When he gets these executives in here

and he puts them through some of this stress test, some of them

break, don't they?

Yes.

And when they break, they confess things, private things,

the kind of things they wouldn't want anybody to know?

Are you one of them, Evelyn?

I made a mistake when I was 16.

I was on drugs and I--

It doesn't matter.

I was an account exec at an ad agency.

I was just looking for a quick way up the ladder.

He needed a woman, a hostess.

He made me marry him or he was gonna send a tape to my father.

I'll get you out of here, Evelyn.

I need my tape.

Listen, there's always a guard in the tape room.

There's hundreds, maybe 1,000 videos in there.

And each video has someone's darkest secrets.

This place was started by a Mexican name Mendosa,

but it was built with money from the people on those tapes.

I'll be back.

[music playing]

[door shutting]

GUARD 1: What's going on?

GUARD 2: I don't even know.

There's someone else here.

GUARD 1: Is he still here?

Where is he?

GUARD 2: He could go around.

GUARD 1: All right.

I'll check it out.

MAN: Don't forget to file the rest of those video tapes.

Ah.

Too much, I think.

Too much too fast.

He must see me.

He must see it is me.

I don't want to hear.

Yes.

Check bungalow 3.

Make sure he's still there.

Someone stole Dr. Decker's key.

[music playing]

[birds chirping]

Hi.

Hi.

He did that to you?

Norm did it.

Ernst doesn't like to bruise his hands.

It's happened before.

It'll happen again.

He'll never let you leave.

You know, somebody penetrated security last night.

You're the only one that could've done it.

It's got him puzzled, as he looked

at the tapes of his TV security, and, uh,

you never left your bungalow.

How'd you manage that?

Oh, people that have fancy security systems

tend to rely on them a little bit too much.

Makes them vulnerable to their own system.

So the tape room, I got a way to destroy the t--

I don't know what your purpose is in coming here,

but I must ask you to gather your things and leave.

Leave now, while I'm still in favor of it.

Well, a big howdy to you both.

I didn't know we were wearing our six guns to breakfast.

I'd have brought mine.

Go, or I'll have you forcibly ejected.

Then I assume that the services

of this here institution are no longer available to my hotel?

Been real nice chatting with you, ma'am.

Howdy, Normy.

I'm sorry, me dear, you had to be subjected to that rather

embarrassing moment.

I don't suppose you're just gonna show that hog leg to me,

are you Normy?

Dr. Decker doesn't like to upset the missus,

so I generally don't use this in front of her inside.

Damn fine sense of propriety you got there, son.

[gunshot]

[music playing]

You Joe, you will no walk if you wait too long.

You Joe, what is your name?

Your mind cannot resist me.

You tell me Joe, what is your name?

MENDOSA: Who are you are?

SOLDIER: You tell me Joe, what is your name?

MENDOSA: Who are you?

You work for the police?

I will know who you are, senior.

Do you see me?

Yeah, but you look terrible.

I will eliminate his memory.

Everything he is will die inside his head.

No, no, I already had my checkup.

[surging electricity]

[music playing]

Again, what is your name?

SOLDIER: What is your name?

Who are you?

SOLDIER: What is your name?

DOCTOR: What is your name?

You cannot resist me.

BOTH: I have paralyzed that part of your mind

the resists commands.

What is your name?

What is your name?

Your name is Mark.

I'm gonna give him another jolt. Tell Ernst.

[glass breaking]

Where did you get that?

It's a-- it's a ta-- taser.

Somebody left it under the operating t--

table. Lucky break.

Are you OK?

Oh yeah, great.

My eyes.

I can't-- I can't see very well.

We've got to go. I've got your car outside.

We've got to go now. - No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

Where-- where's the drug cabinet?

It's here.

You OK?

Here.

You know any of these drugs?

No.

What are you choosing?

Well, we'll take pot luck.

Hallucinogens.

Diethyltryptamine.

We used dimethyltryptamine in Nam.

It's got to be close.

Where do the guards drink their coffee?

Uh, at the end of the corridor, to the left.

Stay here.

[music playing]

Hiya, Normy.

Stay here.

[chatter]

[whistling]

Oh God.

Evelyn.

Evelyn!

What are you doing? Let's go.

Let's get out of here.

We'll never make it.

They got 30 guards in this place.

I juiced up the coffee.

We need time to make it work.

But they won't I'll drink it.

Two or three will be enough.

We need confusion.

Just give it a few minutes.

So it was either Mexico or Canada.

We decided on Canada 'cause my girlfriend's folks

live up in Seattle and--

[laughter]

We'd probably drive up through Big Sur.

[laughter]

Get back.

[music playing]

Come on, come on. Let's go, let's go.

Fire. Let's go.

Come on, get.

EVELYN: Fire.

Come on!

Come on.

[gunshot]

[laughter]

ERNST: Oh no.

He's trying to escape with Evelyn.

Get them!

[music playing]

(SINGING) Shoom.

Get out.

[gunshot]

[laughter]

Hey, stop him!

Stop!

You idiots, stop him!

[tires screeching]

[laughter]

[gunshot]

Evelyn!

(SINGING) Shoom.

Yes.

Take this car.

Head back to Fort Worth.

Where are you going?

It's not finished.

I need Tony Mendosa.

Come on, man.

Brothers don't run.

Hey man, brothers don't run, man!

MENDOSA: Get me to my boat.

Here see.

[engine starting]

I don't even know your real name.

You shouldn't.

[music playing]

Where is he?

[music playing]

(SINGING) Well the razor cuts, and it cuts both ways.

It's a half a day when the pusher pays.

Gonna break him down, gonna bring him in.

Gonna give him a dose of his own medicine.

White heat on the street, cocaine.

Junkies eating right out of his hand.

White heat on the street, cocaine.

Yeah, they're hungry for some action.

He's the man.

All right, all right, yeah.

Shoom.

Andale, andale!

Vamos!

(SINGING) All right, all right, all right,

all right, all right, yeah.

[horn blowing]

[music playing]

Its-- it's turning gray.

[groaning]

Can you see me?

14 kilos, huh?

Guess it's too much.

Can you see me?

Yeah, but you look terrible.

MENDOSA: Can you see me?

Can you see me?

Has the jury reached a verdict in the case of The People

versus Louis Magna?

We have, Your Honor.

Would you, uh, hand it to the bailiff please?

We the jury, in the above entitled action do

find the defendant, Louis Magna, guilty of the crime of murder.

And we find it to be murder of the first degree.

You did it.

Thank you.

Who are you looking for, kid?

Oh, he said he'd be here.

He promised,

[chatter]

He's gone.

He's gone.

[speaking spanish]

Daphne?

Are you OK?

Yeah.

I wanted to tell him what Dr. Rosenberg said about Eddie.

I wanted to tell him that Eddie was getting better.

Who?

Tell who?

I don't know his name.

If it's this guy Mark Bouchard,

you don't want to know him.

He's got a sheet that looks like a grocery list,

He used to be in the CIA.

And now he does bag jobs for South American countries.

What?

Where did that come in?

This morning.

A little bit hard to get.

Ha.

This guy's got some heavy downfield blockers.

So he is Mark Bouchard.

I knew it was him.

I knew it.

Hey, where you going?

Yes?

Hi, I'm looking for Mark.

Who shall I say is calling?

Tell him it's Daphne Delgado.

Just a moment.

Yes?

You're not Mark Bouchard.

Who are you, Miss?

Look, I've got to be someplace.

I'm supposed to be at the airport in an hour.

Mark Bouchard.

He's-- he's very handsome.

He's got big brown eyes.

Mark Bouchard.

Mark please, you've got to hurry.

The ambassador's afraid you're gonna miss your flight.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you.

OK?

Let's go.

JENNIFER: Mark?

Yeah?

JENNIFER: Don't forget this.

MARK: Thanks, Jennifer.

Do-- um, do you know a Ray?

I don't know his last name.

We were here last night.

Oh, you must be mistaken.

This is Ambassador Mason's house.

I'm his wife.

Nobody lives here but us.

Wait.

It's very important that I find him, that I see him again.

Well, I wouldn't worry about that, dear.

Oh, I'm sure he'll call you sometime, somewhere.

I'm sure you'll see him one more time.

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